I’d agree (in fact, I tend to think of you in the ‘many of us said would happen’ part of the equation…)

As, I think, do we all. I also noticed the ‘smaller update’ singular - to go for the glass half full for a moment, perhaps that does not preclude the possibility of patches or ‘hotfixes’ in the interim (though I’m doubtful, and July certainly eliminates that likelihood for at least a month - which makes three months likely…). The problem is that the reason the glass is half-full or half-empty is because Funcom keeps knocking it over in the first place, and at this point I’d rather just have the bottle. That metaphor may have gotten away from me a bit - but suffice to say Funcom’s decisions drive me to drink…

As for the BP - you may well be right. Certainly I think that whatever ultimately decided it, the baseline is that it was consider to be costing too much time/man-hours for the benefit it granted. Whether that benefit was measured in engagement or bazaar sales or whatever, I can only assume that the result was considered insufficient. Though if the intent was engagement, perhaps another culprit to be considered would be the many issues we spend our time complaining about - if the game was in a more enjoyable state, and not subject to so many bugs and bad decisions, perhaps engagement would be higher. Certainly it seems more plausible that you, I and E.y might all be spending more time in the game, which is at least three…

Oh so many many times…

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